A DRIVER whose car crashed into a lantern post alongside the Number Two Village, West Coast Berbice (WCB) roadway, causing the death of a pregnant woman and her foetus earlier this year, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment.
West Berbice Magistrate Rhondell Weever imposed the prison term on the hire car driver Lancelot Ferguson, 46, of Belladrum Village, West Coast Berbice, after she found him guilty at the end of his trial.

Nine witnesses led by Police Prosecutor Corporal Raquel Mars, including police ranks and eyewitnesses, gave evidence about the accident which occurred on January 9.
Donnis Higgins, 24, of Lot 103 Semple Street, Hopetown Village, WCB, lost her life as a result of the accident.

The woman was pregnant at the time and doctors tried desperately to save her unborn child, but the child subsequently died.
It was reported that the accident occurred after Ferguson lost control of the car while negotiating a sharp bend on the road.

Ferguson had pleaded not guilty, claiming that he had lost consciousness or “blacked out” while driving his car around a turn at Number Two Village, West Coast Berbice highway.
He had claimed that he was hypertensive and was totally unaware of what had happened.
Under cross-examination by the prosecutor, the defendant failed to prove that he had been receiving treatment for any serious medical condition prior to the accident.